Why does this not mention long press on the spacebar on ios?
It largely solves this problem.
Long press on spacebar, keep it down and move around to move the cursor. While dragging tap with a second finger to start selection mode.
It largely solves this problem.
Long press on spacebar, keep it down and move around to move the cursor. While dragging tap with a second finger to start selection mode.
I loathe when apps interrupt usage to say "did you know you can?" but... this is one of those things where Apple should point the feature out on upgrade, or something.
Do agree that this one is too hard to discover, Apple doesn't really highlight it at all, while it's so incredibly useful.
Luckily there are all the engagement farmers with their ios tips and tricks, maybe that is the official Apple strategy haha, and to be fair it kinda works as people do find out that way.
It’s only a few characters wide, so you can’t edit large text in small input, such as… the URL, the most frequent usage of editing text on mobile. Along with tasks in the TODO app, typing a text message.
It’s only awful BECAUSE Apple is persuaded that we have fat fingers.
But I have kept a very old iPad from the pre-force space bar, and lightly touching any word would simply put the cursor between letters. Modern-day iOS selects the full word as if I had fat fingers.
You can drag around the whole screen btw. If you need to go further just hold your finger at the side of the screen and it will work as if you hold the arrow keys on a keyboard.
I believe it also responds to velocity, so quick swipes will get you quite far.
On iPad you can also do a two finger drag.
Just to prove it’s possible to do better: iOS used to have the two-finger drag (one force-press, one gently navigating wherever you want, like on the Touchpad) and it worked.
I know something that works and something that doesn’t.
iOS doesn’t.